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Linklaters LLP
ONE SILK STREET
LONDON
EC2Y 8HQ
England
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Work Department

Antitrust & Foreign Investment

Position

Natura is a partner in the antitrust & foreign investment group and is qualified in England & Wales and Spain. She heads the UK antitrust team and the water regulation practice and our State aid and subsidies team.

Natura has over 20 years of experience advising clients on EU and UK competition law, including on global mergers involving filings in multiple jurisdictions. She’s also a State aid, public procurement and utilities expert and provides a one stop shop for many clients in regulated sectors (whether in relation to mergers, investigations or subsidy/state aid matters. She has a particular focus on the energy, water and transport sectors as well as advising clients in the healthcare sector as well as financial sponsors.

Natura is recognised as a “Leading Individual” in Legal 500’s rankings.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Projects, energy and natural resources > Water

(Leading partners)

Natura GraciaLinklaters LLP

Linklaters LLP provides advice to a wide range of water sector stakeholders, acting for water companies on regulatory and competition challenges and investors on financing arrangements. Julian Davies and Natura Gracia head the team in tandem, with Davies specialising in M&A and financing in the sector, while Gracia takes the lead on regulation and competition. Mark Nuttall heads the firm’s structured finance team, assisting water companies with both debt and equity raises, working alongside Elisabeth Johnson, who is well versed in setting up infrastructure financing. Emma Crawford provides further financing capacity and is also able to assist with regulatory issues and investigations.

London > Corporate and commercial > EU and competition

(Leading partners)

Natura GraciaLinklaters LLP

Praised for its ‘a wealth of experience’, the ‘highly commercial and focused’ team at Linklaters LLP handles the full gamut of contentious and non-contentious competition matters. Trusted advisers to industry giants such as Microsoft, Vodafone and Meta, the team showcases its expertise in merger control work, enjoying recent success handling Phase II investigations. Natura Gracia, a dual-qualified (English and Spanish) practitioner, is the London practice head, and advises on a wide range of competition matters, including complex global mergers involving filings under merger control and foreign investment regimes in multiple jurisdictions. Bruce Kilpatrick, who returns to the team from Addleshaw Goddard, stands out for his ability to handle complex Phase II merger investigations and related appeals. Other notable individuals include Anna Mitchell, who is highly regarded for her experience in UK and EU merger control, UK public M&A, multijurisdictional deals and market investigations, and Verity Egerton-Doyle, who is noted for her work on complex merger and behavioural investigations.